Elio Henriquez
Correspondent
La Jornada newspaper
Thursday, October 28, 2021, p. 5
San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chis., The caravan for justice, dignity and freedom of the migrant people resumed its march to Mexico City this Wednesday, after having rested one day in the municipality of Huixtla, reported Luis García Villagrán , director of the Center for Human Dignification.
The activist said that the contingent left at 6 am with the aim of arriving and spending the night in Villa Comaltitlán, after traveling 18 kilometers under temperatures of up to 38 degrees Celsius.
In a telephone interview, he commented that he spoke with the mayor of that municipality, Manuel de Jesús Cruz Coutiño, of the Green Ecologist Party of Mexico, who offered 2,000 cakes, in addition to water provided by Civil Protection.
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He stated that at 10 a.m. the caravan crossed the Border Verification Comprehensive Attention Center, located in Cerro Gordo, without any problems. the agents of the National Guard and the National Institute of Migration (INM) go like birds of prey trying to hunt down their companions. I came in the back with a group and so far no one has been arrested
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▲ Two members of the caravan for justice, dignity and freedom of the migrant people, arriving yesterday in Villa Comaltitlán, Chiapas, where they spent the night before continuing on their way to the United States.Photo Ap
García Villagrán pointed out that there are impressive data from the caravan: I have been doing a census for four days and it is almost confirmed that 1,256 children under the age of seven are coming; just over 400 between the ages of seven and 18; 63 pregnant women, three of them with more than eight months; four people in a wheelchair; three children with a special situation, and almost 400 adults over 65 with some health complications
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Added: This walk should be called the childhood march. The group looks like 2,000 or 3,000, but the count we have done exceeds 5,000. What happens is that there are many children with arms, that is, under six months old and since they are small, the group is not agglomerated
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He stated that in the contingent there is a family from Guatemala traveling bring nine children
, one of whom was injured in the head on Saturday in the town of Viva México, when security forces tried to prevent the passage of migrants.
